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AksyonTaon1950Tagal1h 14mIMDb6.3

Spy Hunt

AksyonKrimenDrama

During the Cold War, a microfilm concealed in the collar of a panther, transported by freight rail, is sought by several spies after the animal escapes its cage following the train's derailment in Switzerland.

Panoorin Ngayon

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Cast

George Sherman

Director

Howard Duff

Steve Quain

Märta Torén

Catherine Ullven

Philip Friend

Chris Denson

Robert Douglas

Stephen Paradou

Philip Dorn

Paul Kopel

Walter Slezak

Doctor Stahl

Kurt Kreuger

Captain Heimer

Aram Katcher

Georg

Ivan Triesault

Assassin

JB

Jay Barney

Assassin

Otto Waldis

Gormand

CM

Carl Milletaire

Ticket Clerk

AF

Antonio Filauri

Telegraph Clerk

CR

Carmela Restivo

Old Italian Woman on Train

CT

Carlo Tricoli

Old Italian Man on Train

RS

Rudy Silva

Young Italian Man at Ristorante

BG

Betty Greco

Young Italian Woman at Ristorante

PO

Peter Ortiz

Soldier

VC

Victor Canning

Writer

LL

Leonard Lee

Writer

GZ

George Zuckerman

Writer

Mga Komento

6 Mga Komento

Solomone KoneOct 13, 2023

Richard kJul 1, 2023

Howard Duff has picked up a couple of black panthers -- the animal kind -- which he is delivering by train to a circus in Germany. Little does he know that spy Märta Torén has hidden important microfilm in one of their collars. Other spies have gotten wind of this, so they derail the railroad car he is traveling in with the beasts, sending him tumbling down a Swiss mountain. When he awakes, he is in a hotel being tended by the owner, Doctor Walter Slezak, and various characters, all made suspicious by their non-American accents are showing up. Are they there for a newspaper story, or to sketch the beasts, hunt them, or to get the microfilm? The story of how the term 'maguffin' came to mean something in a film that everyone wants, but it doesn't really matter what it is, is an joke. Two men are traveling in a railroad car. One points to a device the other has. "What's that?" "That's a maguffin." "What's a maguffin." "It's a device for hunting tigers in the Scottish highlands." "There are no tigers in the Scottish highlands." "Then that's never a maguffin." I'm pretty sure that's the impetus behind the Victor Canning novel this movie is based on. Making them panthers in Switzerland was just intended to obscure the origins. Director George Sherman continues the joke by using he opening music from the Universal Sherlock Holmes series as the opening music to this one, but mostly he handles the story in a straightforward fashion. It's moderately suspenseful. With Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Philip Dorn, and Kurt Kreuger.

Mr.DrewJun 16, 2023

George Sherman, better known as a second feature or assistant director despite having an A flick like COMANCHEROS in his curriculum, comes up with a visually spectacular spy yarn in SPY HUNT, further enhanced by the entrancingly beautiful Marta Toren, herself a spy trying to conceal a negative with supposedly crucial data. Although what the negative might contain, who it might belong to, and who the information is intended for is never clarified, it is safe to assume that either the action relates to WWII and Germanic-looking heavies are after it, or this is already the Cold War boiling over in the Italian/Swiss Alps. Regardless of the conflict, it is a riveting film with credible dialogue, good acting from Duff, Friend, Douglas, Donn and Slezak, here playing against type a non-sleazy medical doctor and inn owner. The show, though, is stolen by the mesmerizing beauty of Toren and the panthers roaming wild over lovingly shot rocky, snowy, or arborous landscape. Great action sequences involving the felines, including a fight with a bloodhound. Truly wonderful cinematography by Irving Glassberg. Well worth watching: 8/10.

Itz Kelly CrownJun 10, 2023

Over the years in the movies, microfilm has been pretty much hidden everywhere as a way of hiding it from the enemy, and here, it is in the collar of one of two dangerous black panthers. A bit of documentary narration at the beginning goes into the detail about that nature of the beautiful large cat, and it's not one you want to tangle with, even over its diamond collar that contains valuable secrets. A train accident with the two cats aboard causes them to escape, and good agent Marta Toren joins forces with U.S. agent Howard Duff to find the panthers before the microfilm falls into the hands of enemy agents. This takes them out into the middle of nowhere, on occasion spotting each of the panthers through their binoculars and the telescopic lens of their rifles. But as they aim preparing to fire, something always happens, making it appear that someone among their group doesn't want them to have access to the valuable collar or its even more valuable secrets. Compact and tense, this cold war spy drama is very well done, the type of crowd pleaser that had post World War II audiences enticed by all the intrigue going on in the world around them. It is never identified what group the enemy agents belong to, but with supporting actors like Walter Slezak, Philip Dorn and Kurt Krueger, the audience is kept guessing which ones are the good guys and which ones are the bad guys. One of the great scenes occurs when Toren and Duff track the collared panther to a cabin in the middle of nowhere and Toren endeavors to lock the panther in so it won't escape. There seems to be a cut scene though, because when we next see the panther, it is already in a cage as everybody surrounding it wonders how they are going to get the darned collar off. That's a minor mishap, however, because the rest of the film is exciting and filled with tension.

Soufiane TahiriJun 10, 2023

This is in almost every aspect a truly amazing film, and there are many odd things contributing to make it unique in its way. The main players and attractions are not Howard Duff and Marta Toren with all their retinue but the two black panthers, that break loose from a train in Switzerland and terrorize the entire landscape, forcing the army to go to war against them and shoot them dead at any cost, while they are invaluable to Howard Duff, their keeper who lost them, and Marta Toren, who used one of them for a spy message. The intrigue is equally masterly contrived, many parts getting involved in this thing, and several of them not hesitating to kill for their business. Walter Slezak, as the inn-keeper, is the one outsider who is totally innocent and provides a charming character for a change and picturesque addition to the stew. It's difficult to follow all the ways and intrigues and turnings of various spies and agents, which it is impossible to discern immediately who is on which side, but some of them come out alive. It's a delicious piece of cake quite out of the ordinary, there is no other spy thriller like it, but its most rewarding qualities are the marvellous shots from the hunting parties in the Swiss Alps, reminding of great natural documentaries, like those of the Swede Arne Sucksdorff, and also of Frank Borzage's "Mortal Storm" ten years earlier.

Babou Touray |🇬🇲❤️Jun 10, 2023

The film is tense and exciting throughout. A panther has a message inserted into a collar around its neck, a message which is of great interest to some questionable characters. The panther escapes its cage and is tracked by Howard Duff, representing the U.S. and by parties who represent the subversives (Ivan Tresault being one of them). The entire film deals with the search and provides some very tense moments. Marta Toren is the beauty who has questionable credentials which have one guessing as to which side she is on. A good film which deserves some recognition. J.W.

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